Language has the power to liberate or oppress.

To ensure the former, Prosperity Now’s Racial Wealth Divide Initiative (RWDI) has developed the Communicating on Race and Racial Economic Equity guide. Our community will find this guide helpful for naming, framing, defining and understanding the complex issues of race, ethnicity and culture while reviewing how they shape racial economic equity.

Highlighted sections within this guide include guidance around:

• The use of grammar and a suggested choice of terms
• Best practices for representing diversity and design guidelines on how to visually depict diverse communities
• Key differences between bridging the racial wealth divide and strengthening individual economic stability
• Guidance for navigating the complexity and nuances between racial economic equity and racial equity

The Communicating on Race and Racial Economic Equity guide contains lessons learned and emerging practices identified by working in partnership with grassroots organizations. Our goal is to enable advocates for economic justice to effectively communicate about, and to address, the racial wealth divide while advancing racial economic equity.

Learn more about the guide and how you can use it in your work on our blog.